>Selena Gomez confirms Justin Bieber relationship

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According to reports, Disney star Selena Gomez has finally confirmed the reports that she’s dating Justin Bieber!

Selena openly spoke with Z100 yesterday and talked about her relationship with Justin, which has been the subject of rumors. Even though we already knew that they were dating, it’s about time someone came forward to say that the reports are true.

She talked about haters on the internet, saying, “It’s hard. It hurts, it really does. I don’t feel like I’m doing anything wrong.”

Of Justin, she said, “I’ve been best friends with him for a very long time. It does hurt my feelings a lot, but I try not to focus on it. I have a strong family and great fans.”

Try not to act surprised that they’re dating, okay?

>Depp, Bieber win Kids’ Choice gongs

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Johnny Depp and Justin Bieber were among the big winners at the 2011 Kids Choice Awards in Los Angeles last night.

Depp took home the ‘Favourite Movie Actor’ gong for Alice In Wonderland, while Bieber earned two Nickelodeon blimps for ‘Favourite Male Singer’ and ‘Favourite Song’. Bieber was unable to make the event due to touring commitments, but Depp attended the event at the Galen Centre and celebrated by sliming the front rows of the audience.

Other winners on the night were Miley Cyrus, whose ‘Favourite Movie Actress’ accolade means that she is now the most successful female KCA winner of all time, moving ahead of Britney Spears.

Selena Gomez took home the ‘Best TV Actress’ title for her role in ‘Wizards Of Waverly Place’, iCarly earned the Favourite TV Show title, while Randy Jackson took home the ‘Favourite Reality Show’ blimp for
American Idol.

Host Jack Black opened the ceremony by performing with the Black Eyed Peas on a medley of ‘Time Of My Life’ and ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’. Band member Fergie later renamed the group the Jack Black Eyed Peas in tribute to the comic, after they picked up the ‘Favourite Music Group’ title.

Willow Smith flew across the audience on a high-wire for a rendition of her hit track ‘Whip My Hair’, which had her father Will dancing and singing along on the front row. Meanwhile, boyband Big Time Rush collaborated with hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg for a special performance, which culminated in Dogg getting slimed.

Other special guests who were honoured with a sliming at the ceremony included Russell Brand, who had green gunk thrown at him by kids on the front rows, Jason Segel, who was given a slime slushie by Glee’s Jane Lynch, supermodel Heidi Klum and, in the show’s finale, Jack Black and Jim Carrey.

>Sideshow: ‘Mad Men’ without its main man?

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Matt Weiner, beloved creator and exec producer of the sexy, revisionist ’60s soap opera, has yet to renew his contract with Mad Men’s home channel, AMC, says Variety.

Fans quake in horror!

But, there’s good news, of a sort: AMC has green-lighted the fifth season of the superb drama – to run in 2012. Seems they’re determined to crank it out with or without Weiner.

The cabler hasn’t necessarily abandoned Weiner, saying that “key non-cast negotiations” continue as we speak. (Weiner plunged AMC into similar contractual chaos two years ago.)

According to the blog Deadline Hollywood, Weiner is opposing AMC and producer Lionsgate on three things they want: more product placements, two minutes less running time in favor of commercials, and cutting two performers. No names mentioned.

Weiner’s AMC masterpiece stars Jon Hamm as a latter-day Ivan Ilych forced to confront his mortality and the morality of his Mephistophelian role as facilitator of the American dream, hyperconsumerism.

Hope they resolve their differences. AMC would be mad – maaaad! – to steer the Mad Men ship without Weiner at the helm.

Britney Spears is back . . .

Britney Spears is on an aggressive publicity campaign for her new CD, Femme Fatale. (Dude, Brit is about as fatale as a toaster oven.) She’s announced a new tour, and she performed three tunes Tuesday on Good Morning America.

MTV is doing its bit for Brit awareness: On Sunday, it’ll air a behind-the-scenes look at Brit’s wonderrific life.

In related news, MTV says Brit’s ex, Kevin Federline, and his gf, Victoria Prince, are expecting a child. K-Fed is a fecund dude: He already has daughter Kori, 8, and Kaleb, 6, with ex-gf Shar Jackson and sons Sean, 5, and Jaden, 4, with Brit.

. . . but Enrique is outa here?

Billboard reports that Enrique Iglesias, supposed to be touring with Brit, has decided to ditch the job.

Entertainment biz moves

FX has renewed cooler-than-cool-can-be actor Timothy Olyphant’s U.S.-marshals-from-Mars drama, Justified, for a third season.

Jennifer Aniston is about to enter uncharted waters: The Friends star is set to direct a segment in Lifetime TV’s breast-cancer-themed movie anthology movie, Project Five, says the Hollywood Reporter. Segments will be directed by Alicia Keys, Demi Moore, and filmmaker Patty Jenkins.

Agatha Christie’s brilliant pensioner detective Miss Marple is about to undergo a serious makeover. Deadline.com says Jennifer Garner will star as Marple in a big-screen mystery from Disney. What?

Celeb writer and would-be celeb Perez Hilton has signed to write a children’s book that celebrates individuality and self-acceptance, titled The Boy With Pink Hair. (Mr. Hilton often sports a neon-pink-dyed do.)

“This story is about every kid that’s ever had a dream, felt excluded, wanted to belong, and hoped that one day they could do what they loved,” Hilton says in a statement.

Oprah Winfrey has gifted Rosie O’Donnell with her very own show on Oprah’s OWN network. “It’s a huge thrill for me, and I’m beyond the beyond,” Rosie writes on her blog.

Rob Lowe: Charlie, partying dude!

Rob Lowe, 47, used to party with Charlie Sheen when the thesps were young, twentysomething studs. (Rob grew up. As for Chas, well he’s still young at heart.)

Vanity Fair has excerpted passages about the boys’ fun days from Lowe’s forthcoming memoir, Stories I Only Tell My Friends.

“We competed to see who could play harder, then show up for work and still kick [behind],” Lowe writes.

Lowe sums Charlie up as “a wonderful mix of nerd . . . and rebel,” but also describes him as “robotic,” with “bloodless focus, an intensity that I’ve never encountered before.”

Stone, Parker Broadway!

“You know, people had warned us that the Broadway scene was snooty, but it really has been pretty great.”

So says Broadway legend Matt Stone in a really, really long, extended Twitter chat with Gawker.

Adds Stone’s accomplice, Trey Parker, “I like theater people. They hug a lot.”

Stone and Parker, you may remember, outraged every possible interest group with South Park. But they’ve become the world’s most beloved religious prophets with their Broadway smash hit, The Book of Mormon.

Asked what musical they’d love to produce, Stone said, “Fiddler [on the Roof] starring Sacha Baron Cohen.”

‘Madagascar Live!’ is dead!

Madagascar Live! isn’t coming to Philly after all. A show rep says DreamWorks Theatricals and Broadway Across America have canceled all previously scheduled performances of Madagascar Live! at the Academy of Music. The show’s final performance will be at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on April 24.

Producers have a very specific, clear, enlightening reason for killing the show: “Unforeseen circumstances.”

Flash: Beyoncé loves her dad

Sure, she’s fired her dad as her manager, but don’t believe ugly rumors that Beyoncé hates Mathew Knowles. “I’ve only parted ways with my father on a business level,” Beyoncé tells UsMagazine.com. “He is my father for life and I love my dad dearly.”

>Who should open for Britney Spears on tour?

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Who will warm up Britney Spears’ crowd?

Britney Spears has announced a new tour in support of her “Femme Fatale” album, running June to August . Enrique Iglesias was on tap to open, but almost as soon as it was announced, he dropped.

Some artists are too big or too small, and some are just right. Some folks have their own tour to worry about — like Rihanna with Cee Lo — while others are simply too busy (can Jennifer Lopez really be in two different locations at once?). Some don’t have the right style to mix — Nicki Minaj has her hands full with Lil Wayne and Young Money anyway.

HitFix has some ideas of who should support Brit-Brit on the road, from Adam Lambert to Ke$ha to Far East Movement.

Who would you personally love to see perform before the pop diva hits the stage?